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Published: January 7, 2003

New wizards, features, and documentation in Internet and Security Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 Feature Pack 1 provide greater ease of use for system administrators. Walk-throughs of common scenarios, such as configuring ISA Server to help protect Microsoft Outlook Web Access, make configuration easier. You can use ISA Server Feature Pack 1 to:

RPC Filter Configuration Wizard

Allowing access to specific RPC services with ISA Server used to mean opening up the network to allow all RPC traffic. Now, using the RPC Wizard in ISA Server Feature Pack 1, you can allow access to a specific set of RPC services on the corporate network. Just select the services from a list of interfaces available on the server that the wizard presents, or define them manually. You can use these service definitions in server publishing rules so that external clients can access them.

Make Intranet Information Available on the Internet with Ease

With the link translator, you have no need to rebuild individual intranet Web pages when you make them available on the Internet. Some intranet Web pages include references to internal names for computers that might appear as broken links to users browsing from the Internet. The link translator easily solves this problem.

Link Translator

The link translator enables you to cross-reference intranet Web server locations with externally available Web server locations, including translating HTTP to HTTPS and vice versa. These links inside Web server responses are automatically translated for users browsing from the Internet. This process minimizes the need to manually modify intranet Web pages before making them available on the Internet. The following scenario provides an example:

An Internet user requests a page from example.com's Web server.

The page returned by the Web server contains absolute hyperlinks to example.com's intranet computer (http://example). Without the ISA Server Feature Pack 1 link translator, the user would receive the page with broken hyperlinks that still refer to the intranet address (http://example). Currently, the only way to avoid this problem is to manually modify all Web pages to eliminate broken links.

When the page passes through ISA Server Feature Pack 1 with the link translator enabled, all references to intranet addresses (http://example) are translated to Internet addresses (http://example.com).

The user receives the page with all of its hyperlinks correctly translated.